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Standard Activity

Project goal: Collaborate with your team to create engaging and error-free content of your choice for our publication by the due date.

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Rubric for text-based content

Outstanding 90-100

  • Style: The writing is organized and, when appropriate, follows and inverted pyramid approach.
  • Clarity and audience: The writing and information is clear, concise, informative, and engaging.
  • Language: No mistakes in grammar, spelling, or punctuation.

Proficient 80-90

  • Style: The writing is mostly organized and, when appropriate, mostly follows an inverted pyramid approach.
  • Clarity and audience: The writing and information is generally clear, concise, informative, and engaging, but it could be improved.
  • Language: No more than two mistakes in grammar, spelling, or punctuation.

Basic 70-80

  • Style: The writing lacks a clear organization.
  • Clarity and audience: The subject is clear, but the details and organization could be improved. It could be more concise.
  • Language: No more than four mistakes in grammar, spelling, or punctuation.

Insufficient 60-70

  • Style: The writing is disorganized.
  • Clarity and audience: The writing is not clear. It is wordy and unfocused.
  • Language: There are more than four mistakes in grammar, spelling, or punctuation.


Rubric for graphics

Including photographs, digitally created graphics, and drawings.

Outstanding 90-100

  • Use: Appropriate and sufficient use of graphics.
  • Selection: The graphic was well created or selected.
  • Composition: The composition is suitable and effectively enhances the story.

Proficient 80-90

  • Use: The graphics that are used are OK, but there is too little or too much use of graphics.
  • Selection: The graphic was well created or selected.
  • Composition: The composition is suitable and effectively enhances the story.

Basic 70-80

  • Use: The graphics that are used are OK, but there is too little or too much use of graphics.
  • Selection: The selected graphic is OK, but a better one could have been used.
  • Composition: The composition is basic. It might have an awkward size or might be able to make a better use of space.

Insufficient 60-70

  • Use: The use or lack of use of graphics detracts from the story.
  • Selection: The selected graphic is is inappropriate or confusing.
  • Composition: The composition detracts from the story.

Instructions

This page serves as a general guideline for completing a variety of creative tasks in our class.

Students will be working alone or in small groups to create content for our publication. Regardless of the content you are creating, you can refer to this page for general direction. There is also a general rubric to help guide you. Specific instructions and rubrics for your specific tasks will be provided by the instructor.


Pre-Production

Regardless of the content you are creating, you first need to plan before you create. If you are writing a story, you have to plan by brainstorming, creating an outline, a list, or some other type of file to organize your ideas.

If you are creating a graphic, you should sketch it out first before your start creating it digitally.

If you are creating a story based on an interview or poll, you should first plan your questions.

If you're not sure what to do in this pre-production stage of your task, ask the teacher!


Production

As the title suggests, this is where you produce your content.

If you are writing a story, write! If you are creating a graphic, open your software and create! If you are taking pictures, grab a camera!

If you have planned well, this stage will go smoothly and be a lot of fun!


Post Production

In this stage, you take your content and prepare it for publication.

If you wrote something, proofread!

If you took some pictures, you will need to get them off the camera and onto a computer!

If you created a graphic using software, you will need to export it to a standard format!

If you drew or painted something, you will need to scan it!

The teacher can help you with all of the above processes, so don't worry.

The final step will be to submit your work on Google Classroom or via a Google form.

Your done! Congratulations!